How do I block idiots?
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Most nurses don't use food banks. Most people who earn less than nurses don't use food banks. I think the nurse in questioned earned £25,000 a year. Not a fantastic wage but there are people who earn a lot less than that who manage their finances and don't rely on food banks.
Just carry on posting Twitter videos of politicians spliced to music and everyone will eventually think you're 12 and stop talking to you.
This irrelevance does not remotely justify his comment.
And there you go, the tories prefer 'cash flow problem' to poverty as it attributes blame to the user and not themselves. Such use of wordings has been their main tool for years.
Not just wording but situations, after years of cuts the tories will proudly claim funding increases now.
But it does if we stop using "but nurses.." as an emotive issue.
Regular use of food banks by those who don't earn enough is a huge problem. Specifically those on zero hour contracts. But someone earning enough where they really should manage their money better doesn't become the government's problem just because they're a nurse.
Not managing your money isn't necessarily indicative that you're criminally underpaid.
The average income is around £23,000, I think. Nationally with regional variances. If you earn above that, nurse or not, chances are you earn more than many people on your street. If everyone on her street is using a food bank then we have a problem and yes government needs to address it and take blame for it. If people earning less than her on her street don't have to use a food bank then I don't think I'm heartless in thinking the remedy is her managing her finances better rather than anything the government has any responsibility for.
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Again, what relevance does this have? Food bank demand has increased hugely. Unless you think frivolous spending by the those on low incomes has increased hugely then it is utterly ridiculous to imply the problem is due to individuals mismanaging their finances rather than government policy.
The overall trend of food bank use is of course down to government but not every use of a food bank is a government issue. I don't think it helps to make the poster woman of the issue someone that probably earns more than many people reading about it who themselves manage without relying on charities to feed themselves.
The discussion should be on genuine, low wage workers who do rely on food banks and who the government has abandoned. Not someone who earns above national average wage who most likely does use a food bank because of poor financial management.
Fair.
Banning zero hour contracts has to be a start. Also banning the spurious use of 'self-employed' where it's just a firm not wanting to pay someone the minimum wage or wriggle out of taxes and financial obligations that comes from employing someone.
You see jobs advertised now in call centres as a 'self employment opportunity'. It should be outlawed immediately.
You see jobs advertised now in call centres as a 'self employment opportunity'. It should be outlawed immediately.
Is this the Deliveroo and, I forget the name of the taxi company, situation?
Whats the average hours that a nurse works? What region was this person in?
£25k to a home owner with no or a low mortgage is easy money. £25k for someone living in an expensive region, spending £1k a month on rent, £1.5k on council tax, £1k a year on gas an electricity, £1k a year on car insurance, £1k a year on petrol, £300 a year on car maintenance, £360 a year on water, £360 a year on a telephone line...
Oh and that £25k a year wage is actually £20.3k after tax.
That leaves £60 a week for food, school fees, and everything else.
I don't think any of my numbers there are unreasonable. If you are working 60 hours a week as a single wage earner with dependents in an expensive region, it's not unreasonable to say there is no way it's sustainable.
The clip of Boris losing it on SkyNews 
That oaf is our foreign secretary ffs
That oaf is our foreign secretary ffs
Raping the NHS of resources is funny if you're posh and have crazy hair
That guy yesterday attacking Corbyn for imposing a minimum wage on him/his employees... perhaps if you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage then your business is a failure. Perhaps the wellbeing of the millions on minimum wage is more important than the businesses that rely upon the underpaid labor of its employees. Crazy talk in the 21st century I know, crazy I am. Raving!
This country is so far right of me that I feel obligated to emigrate.
This country is so far right of me that I feel obligated to emigrate.
It's crap like this that means Labour can't win, no matter how good or bad everyone performs. My mum, a staunch Labour voter, told me the other day that she wasn't voting for them because of "the disgusting things Corbyn has said about Britain being to blame for the Manchester attack"... she had read a fecking Daily Mail headline and that was it. I had to show her what he actually said before she realised that she had been taken for a mug.
We really do need to stop having parents.
It's not even a "for the good of your employees issue". This is how capitalism works!
From memory, he has a clothing store. Let's say the cost of tweed increases 100 percent due to a war in some country or another. Some businesses will be able to handle the increase cost. Others won't and they will disappear. Only the strongest survive. The customers from the ones that disappeared will move on, and the remaining businesses will grow.
He has 3 years to learn to adsorb the cost. If he can't, his business will close, and another that can actually pay their staff will replace him.
At least i got my 15 seconds of fame in the Metro
http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/29/did-a...s-as-theresa-may-answered-a-question-6671077/
http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/29/did-a...s-as-theresa-may-answered-a-question-6671077/
Yet he could clearly afford to send his kids to Public School because he was moaning about VAT on school fees as well.
There's a word for him beginning with C and ending with 'unt'.
They taught me how to read, and now I can teach them how to read more than a headline.
"Spot has a big red ball.
Spot plays with his big red ball.
Spot loses his big red ball.
It's all the fault of the last Labour government."
Was that you?
No I took a video and posted on twitter
Oh right.
The clip of Boris losing it on SkyNews
That oaf is our foreign secretary ffs
This clip?
He needs a more credible shade of hair dye.
The cheek of him to claim he was a 'salt of the earth Mancunian'..
Can you survive on £25k a year
Link to spreadsheet
How on earth could a nurse end up using food banks?
(There is a lot I am missing here, but I will let others play)
Link to spreadsheet
How on earth could a nurse end up using food banks?
(There is a lot I am missing here, but I will let others play)
Demand and supply have gone up independently of each other. Food bank use was unheard of a decade ago because there were no food banks, and the few that existed required difficult to obtain referrals to use them. Now they are common and there are plenty that don't require a referral any more.
Labour really need to ensure people having the costings to hand when they're launching a policy.
Exactly. Money is relative and everyone's circumstances are different. My childcare bill cost more than my rent.
My friends dad volunteers at a food bank in Manchester and you still need a referral. And food banks did exist a decade ago they just weren't as common.
No doubt there are some one here that would blame you for not thinking in advance how much having a child would cost!
Childcare is something I haven't factored in (we luckily have grandparents who are free)
I don't know how a single parent on low wages could cope without benefits.
Me and my Mrs were on £17k with me as the sole earner (so like £14k net?), and managed to make ends meet on £8k rent, £1k Council Tax, etc, without too much difficulty. But rent has gone up since then, car insurance, council tax, etc... and we had zero child care costs.
To think some wanted Boris as Prime Minister. Hope the Tories keep sending him out there.
You are lucky to have help with childcare but I'm telling myself it's not forever. So if you factor in that you need childcare to go to work and then travel cost etc yeah I can see why someone on a salary like that may need some assistance from food banks
He shouldn't be anywhere in politics after his Brexit fiasco. Yet here he is. Everything wrong with English politics right now frankly.
Just give us pr ffs, let the loony posh bastards separate from the smarmy ones. Make it so people can vote for fiscally conservative parties without voting for racist fecks.